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five rods, the inner two; clasp-filament slender, enlarged mesially ^nth an ar- 

 ticulated terminal spine. Harpes with a long, slender columnar process, curved 

 at tip, bearing a row of teeth. Harpagones elliptical, recurved. Basal append- 

 ages remote, rounded, setose. 



Larva, Stage IV (plate 109, fig. 305). Head rounded, widest through eyes, 

 weakly convex on sides, a notch at insertion of antennge, front margin arcuate. 

 Antennae slender, sparsely and minutely spined, with a single hair teyond 

 middle; three short setre and a stout one at tip and a short digit on a pedicel. 

 Upper pair of dorsal head-hairs in fours, lower pair double, ante-antennal tuft 

 multiple, short. Mental plate triangular, straight on the sides, with a projecting 

 central tooth and ten on each side, last small and remote. Mandible rounded 

 triangular, base produced into a blunt angle, a large patch of coarse spines with- 

 out ; a long filament and a very short one from a notch before tip ; an outer row 

 of cilia from a collar ; a row of short conical processes on outer margin bearing 

 tufts of long fine hairs ; dentition of four teeth on a process, first and fourth 

 longest ; a short tooth at base, two broad serrate filaments and five tufted hairs 

 within; process below curved, widely furcate, with a double row of hairs along 

 margin and a tuft at tip of each limb; basal angle small, with a row of hairs 

 within and a short row at base. Maxilla irregularly spherical, divided by an 

 oblique suture; inner half with a row of bristly spines along margin and two 

 cleft stout rows within; a tuft of long hairs at tip; outer half with a single 

 articulated filament near tip, a group of fine hairs within and a horn-like 

 process below. Palpus rudimentary, with four rather long minute digits. 

 Thorax rounded, wider than long; abdomen moderate, anterior segments 

 shorter; skin glabrous. Air-tube slightly fusiform, over five times as long as 

 wide; pecten occupying basal third; single teeth short, broadly triangular, 

 smooth; five long hair-tufts on posterior margin, one laterally near middle of 

 tube ; terminal hooks fine. Lateral comb of eighth segment of numerous scales 

 in a narrow triangular patch ; single spine elongate, fringed with long spinules. 

 Anal segment about as long as broad, ringed by the plate; dorsal tuft of two 

 long hairs on each side ; ventral brush sparse, confined to the barred area. Anal 

 gills longer than, the segment, broad and rather bluntly rounded. 



The larva? live in the water between the leaves of Bromeliace*. 



Island of Trinidad to southern Brazil. 



Trinidad (F. W. Urich). The species is reported also from Sao Paulo, Brazil 

 (Theobald) ; Santos, Eio de Janeiro and Bahia, Brazil (Bourroul). 



CULEX CONSOLATOR Dyar & Knab. 



Culex consolator Dyar & Knab, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xix, 169, 1906. 

 Culex consolator Theobald, Mon. Culic, v, 613, 1910. 



Original Description of Culex consolator : 



The larva is very close to Culex rejector Dyar & Knab, unbred (Journ. N. Y. Ent. 

 Soc, xiv, 221, 1906), found in Bromelia water at Cordoba, Mexico. It differs in having 

 the hair tufts on the tube long, the anal segment with a lateral rosette of spines. 

 A single male was bred by Mr. Urich form a larva in Bromelia water at Arima, 

 Trinidad. 



J'. Head black, with narrow, curved whitish-gray scales behind and black setae. 

 Proboscis black, palpi black, very hairy, with white rings at the bases of the joints; 

 antennae black. Thorax golden brown, with pale longitudinal striation, under a 

 higher power with sparse golden scales and coarse black setae, two whitish dorsal im- 

 pressed lines and an oblique one on the pleura before the wing insertion. Abdomen 

 black with distinct white basal bands; thorax below greenish; legs black, femora pale 

 below; all the tarsi with narrow white basal rings. 



Type. Cat. No. 10,019, U. S. Nat. Mus. 



